Our Team
Wayne Chen
Wayne is a qualified actuary and has consulted multinational financial services companies for over 10 years on risk management and strategy. He left management consulting firm Oliver Wyman in 2007 to co-found RiskFirst, a fintech business which provides world leading risk analytic platform to large corporate pension funds. This platform supports over 3,000 pension funds with over £1 trillion in assets and it was acquired by Moody’s Analytics in 2019.
As the markets began to recover from the 2007/08 financial crisis, Wayne acquired a substantial portfolio of residential property, ranging from high income yielding, single family lets, to high quality house shares aimed at young professionals. Having a portfolio focused in London and the South East has allowed him to build extensive relationships with local agents and a strong understanding of the local property markets.
Wayne applies his experiences in finance and risk management to ensure a rigorous approach is applied to every site appraisal and acquisition that Grow Property is involved in.
Giving back is incredibly important to Wayne - both to society and supporting his local community. He volunteers in a local charity providing free debt advice and is also a trustee of a charity providing shelter for homeless young people in London.
Marc Freeman
Marc studied Engineering at Durham University, majoring in Construction and Civil Engineering. He worked as a management consultant for Newton Europe for 15 years, helping grow the business from 5 people to over 250. Newton specialises in helping large organisations improve profitability through driving productivity and operational efficiency.
Marc started in the property industry 20 years ago, while still at Newton investing in buy-to-let properties. As his portfolio grew, he left Newton Europe to focus on property full time with a focus on property development.
He has carried out a number of developments in Bristol prior to setting up Grow Property. These projects included developing a Victorian office building into 4 luxury residential flats and converting an ex-NHS care home into 4 executive homes with a combined value of £4.5m.
Marc's Engineering background and focus on operational efficiency makes him ideally suited to overseeing the construction projects and ensuring a smooth delivery from start to finish.